The cutter jingled her full-speed bell while the tackle was still lifting the sponson boat.
He leaned on the rail and watched the departure of the officer of the faded blue cap with his crew of the sponson boat.
We had the utmost difficulty in making the bolt-holes fit, and as each sponson weighs about three tons they were not easy to move and adjust.
The tanks moved down to the temporary tankdrome which had been decided upon near the railway, and the sponson trucks were towed there.
The sponson was girt about with these slings, the bolts which secured the sponson to the body of the tank were taken out, and the sponson was lowered on to the trolley.
I should have liked to relate how the tanks came crawling along sponson to sponson, and how my tank won, but I must in fairness confess that Ward's company won an overwhelming victory.
He had just climbed inside for a moment, when a shell pierced the sponson and burst, killing instantly Holt and one of his men and wounding the remainder.
Flames burst from the roof and the tank stopped, but the sponson doors never opened and the crew never came out.
An eager gunner endeavoured to pass one of the tanks, but his gun caught the sponson and slipped off into the mud.
The first soldier to get a leg over the rail came tumbling back with a split skull, bounding off the sponson into the water and sinking as he drifted away.
Catching at the mooring poles, the soldiers stepped out on the wide sponson that curved down, amidships, nearly to the water-line.
The nearest tank was a female, her left sponson doors were open, out of these protruded four pairs of legs, exhausted and wounded men had sought refuge in this machine, and dead and dying lay in a jumbled heap inside.
The Advanced Guard tank went straight forward through the enemy’s wire and, turning to the left, without crossing the trench in front of it, opened right sponson broadsides.
The sergeant of one crew, hearing that the enemy had captured his tank, collected his men and charged forward to recover it, arriving at one sponson door of the machine as the enemy were scrambling out of the opposite one.
It will readily be seen that this arrangement involved a considerable amount of labour, and rendered the process of entraining an extremely lengthy one; this led to an improved form of sponson being produced for the Mark IV machine.
In the water around the sponson floated a number of water wings, tied to the boat, to represent floating ice cakes.
Gladys's face was crimson with shame when she told how she had tried to make Sahwah take her out in the sponson during rest hour, and had called her a coward because she refused.
Offer to help her learn to swim, and go out with her in the sponson until she may go out in a canoe.
It was more fun even than she had imagined, and the canoe seemed so light in comparison to the sponson that she sent it flying through the water with little effort.
Nyoda and Hinpoha got into the sponson and the three set out, Gladys swimming alongside the boat.
I've got to meet Sponson at the Club to see when that ship is going out for her trials; I mean the one which I'm going to take Bob on board of.
Captain Sponson told me the other day at the Club that she'd go out of harbour at nine o'clock sharp in the morning!
All correct, sir," replied Ralph's sergeant, as the subaltern scrambled through the narrow armoured door in the afterside of the sponson and gained the complicated interior of the Tank.
He battered the metal door in the after end of the sponson with the butt end of his rifle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sponson" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
